ISTANBUL

At least 13 Palestinians were detained in Israeli military raids in the West Bank on Monday amid escalating tensions in the occupied territory, local media said.

Two young Palestinians were taken into Israeli custody in the Balata refugee camp in eastern Nablus after a raid on their house, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

An ex-prisoner was also arrested in Tubas in the northern West Bank after Israeli forces raided his house, according to Kamal Bani Odeh, the local director of the Palestinian Prisoner Society.

Ten more people were arrested in raids in the northern city of Qalqilya and Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, Wafa said.

According to the news agency, Israeli forces forcibly displaced several Palestinian families in various areas in the West Bank to turn their houses into military outposts.

Israeli military bulldozers also demolished a Palestinian home in Ramallah city, citing the lack of a building permit, witnesses said.

The Israeli army has intensified home demolitions and field interrogations of Palestinians in the Bruqin and Kafr al-Dik towns of Salfit, northern West Bank, since a shooting attack that killed an illegal Israeli settler last week.

At least 968 Palestinians have been killed and more than 7,000 injured in attacks by the Israeli army and illegal settlers in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, the Health Ministry said.

The International Court of Justice declared Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian land illegal last July and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.